Published 14 October 2026 · Source-linked research prepared with AI assistance. Proposed services require an agreed scope and qualified delivery team.
Find the budget owner
A facilities director, risk team or emergency manager may recognize the problem, while another office controls contracting. Establish who owns the records, who approves the technical scope and who can buy the work. Existing facilities-management and engineering agreements may offer a practical subcontract route, subject to their terms and the agency’s rules.
Buy implementation, not another generic checklist
Public agencies can already access substantial resilience guidance and voluntary assessment support. Weatherhill’s proposed value is organizing the customer’s portfolio, reconciling actual evidence, maintaining review dates and tracking corrective work. Specify that delivery burden in the scope so the buyer can compare it with existing resources.
Set an acceptance test
Use a finite facility list and clearly distinguish desktop screening from site inspection. Agree on the evidence register, minimum fields, named reviewers, review workshop and export format. Acceptance should reflect completion and quality of the work, including honest unknowns. It should not depend on producing a favorable score or an unsupported funding recommendation.
Keep procurement and data boundaries clear
State, local and federal purchasing routes differ. Check required sources, competition, contract scope and information-security requirements with the contracting office. Do not divide a single requirement to avoid a threshold. Restrict the initial exchange to the information needed for scoping; operational vulnerability records require an agreed protected workflow.
Sources & further reading
- GSA Safeguarding Assets ↗Facility, equipment, communications and transport dependencies as mission risks.
- CISA Resilience Services ↗Existing voluntary security and resilience assessments and Infrastructure Survey Tool.
- Acquisition.gov threshold effective dates and FAR Part 13 ↗General federal $15k MPT/$350k SAT from October 1, 2025; procurement conditions and no artificial splitting.